Randy Fay: Drupal 7 File API Changes
Drupal 7 has had a major (read huge, life-altering) change to its file API. Hopefully it's all good, but you definitely need to understand it if you're porting or developing any D7 modules.
There are two key changes, which I'll deal with one at at time:
Lullabot: Podcast 88: Copenhagen Loves Bon Jovi
Angie Byron, Addi Berry, Nate Haug, and Jeff Robbins report back from DrupalCon Copenhagen.
Davy Van Den Bremt: Three things we learned from indexing a Drupal site with millions of nodes in Apache SOLR
For one of our clients, we are running a Drupal site with about a millions of nodes. Before launch, those nodes are imported from another database and then indexed into Apache SOLR. The total time to index all of these nodes in an empty SOLR instance is measured in days rather than hours or minutes.
A bit too long to do this import regularly. So me and my (XDebug) profiler delved into the Apache SOLR module code to look where we could scrape of a few hours/days of the execution time.
Seemed like in our case, there were 3 components responsible for a large share of the execution time. Let's have a look.
BTW. We are using the latest dev build of version 2 of the Apache SOLR module.
Lullabot: Command Line presentation
I had a great time at Drupalcon Copenhagen! Thanks to everyone who made it happen. I did one presentation this time around, "The Command Line is your friend." It covered the basic commands for getting around and doing things, most of which are covered in more detail in the Command Line Basics video series. One thing that was new and that I ended up not having time to get to in Copenhagen was showing how to install Drupal from the command line. A number of people expressed interest in seeing that part, so I promised I'd make a video of it, and now I've gotten it done. I'm attaching the slides from the presentation here as well, so please have some fun playing around on the command line.
SthlmConnection: Exportable configuration with CTools – revisited
A while ago I wrote about how to provide exportable configuration presets in Drupal modules. While I was taking advantage of CTools' exportables API rather than building this functionality from scratch, we still ended up with quite a lot of code for what was supposed to be a standardized feature. Since then, however, CTools' exportables API has evolved and now also provides a UI out of the box.